How did they come to this figure? Well SGS quite sensibly tried to find a current equivalent, and they found that in the form of the world’s largest aircraft carrier the USS Gerald R. Ford.

“The Gerald R. Ford is currently the largest and most advanced ship military ship in the world – despite this it’s still roughly half the size of the Enterprise – and houses a hanger and advanced weaponry. Doubling the annual maintenance cost for the USS Gerald R Ford to reflect the Enterprise’s size, we arrived at the figure of £5,259,402.94.”

They then took the costs of keeping a crew paid:

“Using the same percentage of engineers to crew needed to run the Gerald R. Ford and their average salary we can assume that the annual labour costs of keeping Captain Kirk boldly going would be £4,136,589.44*.”

Factoring in maintenance costs and you’re left with around £10m per year.

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Now we’re going to come out and say right now that we think that’s a very, very low sum.